Ice-chest



(NoModeL) C. P. JACKSON.

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I No. 274,337, Patented Mar. 20,1888. 4 K

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ICE-CHEST.

srncrr-rcA'rron ormm part ot' Letter s Patent No. 274,337, dated March 20, 1883.

Application filed September 11,1882. (No model.) A

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES P. JACKSON, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Ice-Chest, of which the followingisa full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to refrigerating iceohests in which the stores are cooled by ice placed in a tray occupying part of the .space within the chest; and it consists of the arrangement of the said ice-tray, drip-pan, and the contrivauce for the escape of the drip, all ashereinafter fully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of my improved ice-chest, the cover being raised. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of Fig. 1 on line a Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the ice-tray.

. The chest to may be constructed in any approved way, and in therectangular form shown, or substantially such form. I propose to arrange the ice-tray b in. such a chest on rollers sides of the chest, about midway from top to bottom, to facilitate the shifting of the tray from end to end for access to the stores below the tray. The tray is to be so constructed that an air-space, a, will insulate it from the ends of the chest, and will insure circulation of the air in the chest by allowing of its passing up at both. ends of the tray and down through the same, no matter in what position the tray may be, and so that it can be readily lifted out, when it is desired, for cleaning the chest or for other purposes. I

Below the chest is a drip-pan, f, to receive the water from the ice on the rack g, said pan being suspended, by rods Ii. and adjusting-nuts i, from the corners of the tray, said nuts being to adjust the pan with relation to the bottom of the tray for regulating the opening j between it and the bottom of the tray according to the desired circulation of the air contained in the chest through the tray for cooling and regulating the temperature in the chest. In practice the sides ofthe drip-pan will beflanged inwardly, as atf, to prevent the water in'the pan from slopping over, and below the pan I propose to arrange a false bottom or ceiling, k, with an air-space in it or between it and the bottom of the pan to prevent the conduction of heat from the warmer air below through the pan.

Forthe discharge of the drip-waterI arrange a pipe, I, to extend from one end of the pan, near the side of the chest, with a V-shaped trough, at, extending therefrom along the chest in the direction that the tray moves, and alongside of one of the cleats d, to receive the drip when the tray is shifted, and having a pipe, n, extending down through the bottom of the ice-chest, at one corner, where it will be protected by a trap below to exclude the exterior air. A sufficient space is to be left above the tray 1) in the chest for a proper circulation of the air above the tray.

Havingthus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The inwardly-flanged drip-pan f, suspended adjustably under the ice-tray, and being arranged with an insulating-snpp ort, Ii, substantially as described.

2. In an ice-chest, the combination, with the ice-tray I), of the drip-pan f, having the upwardly-extending rods it, passed through eyes fixed to the tray 1), said rods 71. having adjust ing-nnts t, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES PRINGLE JACKSON.

Witnesses:

B. F. HEAD, W. 0. ROBINSON. 

